Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin was a photographer in NYC in the early '70s through today. In the early 1970s Goldin started a documentary with the objective to depict the people, whom she admired. These people included drug addicts, sex dependent. Later Goldin brought her pictures from this scene together in her book "The Other Side". She is most famous for her slide show, The balled of Sexual Dependency". This is a very sexual oriented show with music and voice overs. This was very important to America's youth because she was fresh out of college and in the late '70s it was art from the youth for the youth. She showed this idea of a "beat" generation such as Dylan and others did in their time. She was new age and inspirational to up and coming artists.

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